Charles Claiborne Cage

1809 - 1855  (46 years)

• Name	Charles Claiborne Cage  [1]
  Born	28 Sep 1809	Wilson County, Tennessee, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1850	Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA   [1]
  Died	6 Oct 1855	Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA   [2]
  Buried	Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I24028	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family	Catharine Jane Stewart,   b. 23 Jun 1819, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 13 Sep 1857, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA  (Age 38 years)
  Married	4 Jan 1838	Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA   [3]
  Children	1. William Clinton Cage,   b. 16 Oct 1840, Lessley, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 16 Apr 1914, Lessley, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA  (Age 73 years)  [natural]   2. James Duncan Cage,   b. 24 Apr 1844, Lessley, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 29 Sep 1915, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA  (Age 71 years)  [natural]   3. Catherine Cage,   b. Abt 1847, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   4. Caroline Cage,   b. Abt 1848, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   5. Laura Minerva Cage,   b. 22 Oct 1854, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 10 Jun 1909, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA  (Age 54 years)  [natural]   6. Mary Elizabeth Cage,   b. 31 Jul 1845, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ,   d. 15 Mar 1850  (Age 4 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F8204	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Son of Captain John C. Cage and Thankful Morgan, grandson of Major William Cage and Elizabeth Douglass ---------------------------------------------------------- He was a lawyer and politician in Mississippi. In 1833 he represented Pike County in the State Legislature. By 1836 he had moved to Woodville, Mississippi where he practiced law in the firm of Cage and Scudder. He formed a second partnership with Horatio F. Sirmall in April of 1839, and in November of that year he was elected Judge of the 3rd Circuit Court, which was the seat his Uncle Harry Cage served on. He was re-elected to this seat in 1841. In 1845, he chose not to run for re-election, and established a cotton plantation in Fort Adams, Mississippi. He continued his Woodville law practice with his brother Benjamin, and he remained active in politics, serving as a representative to the State Democratic Convention in 1853 and the Democratic Legislative Committee in 1855. He also apparently was a party in a duel in the early 1840s. In the book The Woodville Republican, Volume 7: January 5, 1892-December 28, 1895, on page 49, there is an abstract of an article about the death of Colonel Frank Ruffin in Virginia. The article "recalls a duel which occurred between that gentleman and Judge C. C. Cage, father of Messrs W. C. & J. D. Cage, early in the forties, to which the former was seconded by messrs W. L. Brandon and St. John Liddell and the latter by Messrs Jones and Noland Stewart. Mr. Ruffin fired before the word, wounding Judge Cage, not dangerously however; the forfeit of his life was claimed by Noland Stewart and tendered by Mr. Ruffin, but the premature firing was so evidently unintentional that the penalty was not exacted. These gentlemen were all men of mark and distinguished citizens; of whom Colonel Ruffin was the last survivor." (FindAGrave)

  
  

• Sources

  [S62] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;). [S2400] U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S2485] Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1826-1900, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2000;).